Compact discs

Program notes by Robert Nickora and track listing inserted in container

Produced by Robert Nickora

Various performers

Disc 1.

There is no Christmas like a home Christmas / Perry Como ; the Ray Charles Singers & Mitchell Ayres and his orchestra (3:14) -- Christmas day / Eddie Fisher ; Hugo Winterhalter and his orchestra (2:59) -- I wanna go skating with Willie / Patti Page ; Hugo Peretti and his orchestra (2:08) -- Christmas symphony / Perry Como ; the Ray Charles Singers & Mitchell Ayres and his orchestra (3:32) -- That's what Christmas means to me / Eddie Fisher ; Hugo Winterhalter and his orchestra & chorus (3:28) -- Little donkey / Patti Page ; orchestra & chorus: Belford Hendricks (2:09) -- This time of year / Brook Benton ; orchestra & chorus: Belford Hendricks (2:24) -- Ol' Santa / Dinah Washington ; orchestra & chorus: Belford Hendricks (2:39) -- Home for the holidays / Jerry Vale (2:33) -- Our winter love / Anita Bryant ; orchestra & chorus: Robert Mersey (2:36) -- Mary had a baby (amen!) / The Norman Luboff Choir (2:33) -- Let's make it Christmas all year 'round / the Norman Luboff Choir (2:43) -- Sleigh ride / Laura Leslie (1:48) -- Jingle bells / Arthur Godfrey ; the Chordettes & the Mariners ; Archie Bleyer and his orchestra (2:35) -- Christmas in Killarney / Tommy Tucker and his orchestra featuring Don Brown and chorus (2:59) -- Jing-a-ling, jing-a-ling / Tommy Tucker and his orchestra featuring Don Brown, Karen Rich and chorus (3:00) -- Parade of wooden soldiers / the Pinetoppers (2:02) -- Jolly old St. Nicholas / the Pinetoppers & the Marlin Sisters (2:25) -- Ting-a-ling-a-jingle / the Pinetoppers & the Marlin Sisters (2:57) -- Littlest angel's Christmas / Clark Dennis ; the Jud Conlon Singers & Victor Young and his singing strings (3:17) -- Sleigh ride / Ethel Smith (3:12) -- White Christmas / Ethel Smith (3:00) -- Jingle bells / Ethel Smith (2:46) -- Silent night / Ethel Smith (2:19) -- Adeste fideles (o come, all ye faithful) / Ethel Smith (2:09) -- Hark! the herald angels sing / Ethel Smith (2:10) -- O little town of Bethlehem / Ethel Smith (2:18) -- It came upon a midnight clear / Ethel Smith (2:32) -- O holy night (cantique de Noel) / Ethel Smith (2:10)

Disc 2.

Blue Christmas / Hugo Winterhalter and his orchestra & chorus (3:03) -- You're all I want for Christmas / Hugo Winterhalter and his orchestra & chorus (2:38) -- Christmas Island / Hugo Winterhalter and his orchestra & chorus (2:57) -- White Christmas / Hugo Winterhalter and his orchestra & chorus (3:14) -- Carol of the bells / Hugo Winterhalter and his orchestra & chorus (2:36) -- Blue December / Hugo Winterhalter and his orchestra & chorus (3:03) -- Deck the halls ; Wassail song / Hugo Winterhalter and his orchestra & chorus (3:33) -- Away in a manger ; I saw three ships / Hugo Winterhalter and his orchestra & chorus (3:27) -- Still, still, still / the Norman Luboff Choir (3:21) -- Happy birthday, gentle savior / George Beverly Shea (3:10) -- One God / Jill Corey ; Percy Faith and his orchestra & chorus (2:56) -- Christmas tree angel (sweet Angie) / Art Lund ; the Quartones ; Leroy Holmes and his orchestra (3:07) -- Little toy town parade / Art Lund ; the Quartones ; Leroy Holmes and his orchestra (2:32) -- Snow bells / Winifred Atwell (2:03) -- Merry Christmas polka / Dinah Shore ; orchestra and chorus: Harry Zimmerman (2:33) -- Star of Bethlehem / Dinah Shore ; orchestra and chorus: Harry Zimmerman (2:50) -- Put Christ back into Christmas / Red Foley & the Anita Kerr singers (2:50) -- Gentle carpenter of Bethlehem / Red Foley & the Anita Kerr singers (2:37) -- Mansion over the hilltop / Red Foley & the Foggy River Boys (2:34) -- We wish you a merry Christmas / the Weavers and orchestra (2:26) -- Burgundian carol (2:07) -- God rest ye merry, gentlemen / the Weavers (1:17) -- Go tell it on the mountain / the Weavers (2:29) -- Twelve days of Christmas / the Weavers (2:36) -- Lulloo lullay (Coventry carol) (2:04) -- It's almost day / the Weavers (1:24) -- One for the little biddy baby (go where I send thee) / the Weavers and orchestra (2:44) -- Poor little Jesus / the Weavers (2:03) -- Seven blessings of Mary / the Weavers (2:51)